by Mark Murton Original Title: 5 tombe per un medium (5 Graves for a Medium) Director: Massimo Pupillo Synopsis: An attorney, Albert Kovac (Walter Brandi), arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner, Jeronimus Hauff. Hauff’s widow and daughter claim that the late lord could summon the souls of ancient […]
Category Archives: Black and White
The Child (1977)
Directed by: Robert Voskanian This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A young woman named Alicianne (Laurel Barnett) takes a job as a nanny to a motherless little girl named Rosalie (Rosalie Cole) who has some very unusual friends […]
The Last House on the Left (1972)
by Mark Murton Director: Wes Craven Synopsis: Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert try to score some marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts. Kitty Cameo: Near the start of the film Fred (Fred J. Lincoln) and Sadie (Jeramie Rain) are at their seedy […]
The Big Shot (1931)
Directed by: Ralph Murphy, Edward Sedgwick Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: Ray Smith (Eddie Quillan) is an ambitious young man who invests, sight unseen, in an auto camp that turns out to be a wreck. Kitty Cameos: As Ray first enters the Blue Bird Auto […]
Deported (1950)
Directed by: Robert Siodmak Synopsis: Vic Smith (Jeff Chandler) is an American gangster deported to Italy where he gets involved in crime and falls for a Countess (Märta Torén). Purr Blur: In one scene a woman named Gina (Marina Berti) is following Vic through the streets. She passes very close to a tuxedo cat who […]
Jonathan Creek – “The Problem at Gallows Gate, Part 1”
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: February 14, 1998 Directed by: Keith Washington Synopsis: A wealthy, young eccentric commits suicide by jumping off a balcony after discovering his girlfriend Felicity (Annabel Mullion) with someone else, but three weeks later the same man is seemingly witnessed strangling his ex-girlfriend in her house. Jonathan (Alan Davies) needs […]
Trouble Brewing (1939)
by Mark Murton Director: Anthony Kimmins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: George Gullip (George Formby) has won a lot of money at the races but he’s paid with counterfeit money so he sets about tracking down the criminals himself. Kitty Cameo: In the opening scene […]
The Demi-Paradise (1943)
by Ted Davis Also Known As: Adventure for Two Directed by: Anthony Asquith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In 1939, earnest Russian engineer Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) visits England to manufacture his revolutionary ice-breaker propeller, but his preconceived prejudices against the English people prove to […]
I, Monster (1971)
by Mark Murton Starring: Little Cat Directed by: Stephen Weeks This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film. Synopsis: In this reworking of Jekyll and Hyde, Victorian psychologist Charles Marlowe (Christopher Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients’ inhibitions. Using […]
Rumpole of the Bailey – “Rumpole and the Alternative Society”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 10, 1978 Directed by: Herbert Wise Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Acerbic and aging, beleaguered Wordsworth-spouting barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) travels from London to the Western Circuit in order to defend free-spirit Kathy (Jane Asher) on a cannabis-related […]